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The point isn't about utility, it's about aesthetics - it's about how the product is finished. What you use in the back should be the same as elsewhere.


Even furniture from The Old Masters doesn’t have beautiful veneered back panels, but plain, unfinished boards.


Sure, but I'm just explaining Steve's reasoning here. People are saying it's a bad analogy without understanding what he's actually saying.


On the back of the Mona Lisa should be ... another Mona Lisa?




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